This is the time of year when we reflect on two turning points in our history as a people: the end to legal slavery in the 1830s, and the formal end of colonialism in the 1960s. We must be careful not to romanticise these two events; both brought.
When the clock struck midnight on August 1, 1838, Reverend William Knibb declared “The negro is free”. In a letter to a confidant, Knibb recalls: “Never did I hear such a sound. The winds of freedom appeared to have been let loose. The very.
It would be more than an insult to the people of St Thomas for Jamaica to move into a republic with the Princess Margaret Hospital still celebrating the British monarchy. In the first place, there should not have been a monument to the monarchy in.
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